The case against the Department of Justice

Published: Thursday, September 27, 2012 at 04:24 PM.

I respectfully ask every rational, honest and descent person of Alamance County, the state of North Carolina and the United States to consider this:

When an appointed/hired person, not an elected person, of a Department of the United States government publicly accuses an elected official of racism and bias, through the media, not in a court of law, is it rational for honest and decent people to give their support to that person and the government institution they represent or to the elected individual who stands accused?

Should any credence to claims of racism and bias against an elected Sheriff, Terry Johnson, be given without first due process of law? This is what Mr. Perez, an employed assistant attorney general of the U.S. Department of Justice has done. His accusations were in the media, not a court of law.

Shouldn’t every citizen ask themselves what is the motive and intent of these accusations? Is it a character assassination, of Sheriff Johnson because he enforces the laws of Alamance County, the state of North Carolina and the country on all people within the county, without regard to political correctness?

Is Mr. Perez’s motive to affect the outcome of local and national elections? Perhaps because his employer; elected and appointed officials of the Department of Justice, have created a culture within the department to target elected law enforcement officials that do not share their vision of social and political engineering?

Is it coincidence that each and every time there is an accusation made publicly by the Department of Justice against Sheriff Johnson, it has always been done within a few months or weeks before an election? I ask reasonable, sensible people to contemplate these accusations of racism and bias against Sheriff Terry Johnson.

In 2011 there were 3,696 traffic stops in Alamance County, 466 or 12.6 percent were people of Hispanic ethnicity. Of the 466; 237 were citations, 126 verbal warnings and 64 arrests. Alamance County’s Hispanic ethnicity population is 11.4 percent. Does this data support accusations of bias and racism?

I respectfully ask every rational, honest and descent person of Alamance County, the state of North Carolina and the United States to consider this:

When an appointed/hired person, not an elected person, of a Department of the United States government publicly accuses an elected official of racism and bias, through the media, not in a court of law, is it rational for honest and decent people to give their support to that person and the government institution they represent or to the elected individual who stands accused?

Should any credence to claims of racism and bias against an elected Sheriff, Terry Johnson, be given without first due process of law? This is what Mr. Perez, an employed assistant attorney general of the U.S. Department of Justice has done. His accusations were in the media, not a court of law.

Shouldn’t every citizen ask themselves what is the motive and intent of these accusations? Is it a character assassination, of Sheriff Johnson because he enforces the laws of Alamance County, the state of North Carolina and the country on all people within the county, without regard to political correctness?

Is Mr. Perez’s motive to affect the outcome of local and national elections? Perhaps because his employer; elected and appointed officials of the Department of Justice, have created a culture within the department to target elected law enforcement officials that do not share their vision of social and political engineering?

Is it coincidence that each and every time there is an accusation made publicly by the Department of Justice against Sheriff Johnson, it has always been done within a few months or weeks before an election? I ask reasonable, sensible people to contemplate these accusations of racism and bias against Sheriff Terry Johnson.

In 2011 there were 3,696 traffic stops in Alamance County, 466 or 12.6 percent were people of Hispanic ethnicity. Of the 466; 237 were citations, 126 verbal warnings and 64 arrests. Alamance County’s Hispanic ethnicity population is 11.4 percent. Does this data support accusations of bias and racism?

Over 50 percent of our friends and neighbors of Hispanic ethnicity over the age of 18 were not born in the United States. Could a different culture, a different language and different social expectations and rules be contributing factors to explain Hispanic infarctions with law enforcement?

There are approximately 125 people that have made accusations against Sheriff Johnson, but we don’t know who any of them are. Isn’t it fair and just to assume that because we do not know who, and what their claims are, that some of these people, if not most may have motives against the sheriff and deputies for grievances, only known to them, that have nothing to do with bias and racism; but with intent to take advantage of an opportunity to harm the sheriff and his department by way of participating in false accusations of racism and bias?

Is it not only an insult and personal attack against Sheriff Johnson, but against every man and woman that serves as a deputy for the Alamance County Sheriff’s Office; because these accusations imply that they support and participate in racism and bias? I believe the vast majority of law enforcement officers are good, honest and decent people who stand up every day and do the right thing by honoring their sworn duty to uphold the laws of their states and the United States Constitution.

Hundreds of years ago Plato said;

“The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.”

I ask every citizen of Alamance County and North Carolina; Black, white, Hispanic, all races and ethnicity that are good, honest and decent people to support and encourage Sheriff Johnson and his deputies, until such time that we, by way of public facts, not personal character assassination by accusations presented only through the media, should do otherwise.